Re: Techno-savvy...

2016-02-28 Thread drlegendre .
"Techno-savvy" is essentially a media / marketing term. For the most part, it means whatever the speaker(s) wish it to mean, within the context in which it is used. The term isn't always complimentary; it can just as well be a pejorative. For the most part, the populace-at-large seems to define

Re: 3B2 Diagnostics

2016-02-28 Thread r.stricklin
On Feb 28, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Seth Morabito wrote: > Does anyone have a 3B2 diagnostics disk that is 100% verified to > have come with a 3B2/300 or 3B2/400? "Come with", dunno. "Work with", definitely. Standby. ok bear. -- until further notice

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
On 02/28/2016 06:40 PM, Jason Scott wrote: Stack Exchange entry which suggests it goes back to the 1950's. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer Thanks! It would be interesting to see the context there, and if there were

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
On 02/28/2016 06:50 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Computers existed way before 1980, and had many boards plugged into wire-wrapped backplanes or motherboards. Backplane was certainly a term from way back, I just don't recall seeing motherboard before somewhere around the 1980 timeframe. Maybe you're

Techno-savvy...

2016-02-28 Thread Murray McCullough
What is a techno-savvy student? Can classic computers possibly give an answer? I used early microcomputers in my electronics classroom I taught in the 70’s. Computers back then were rather primitive, not much better than calculators, but did mimic human learning – well maybe not advanced enough to

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/28/2016 06:32 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'? I've always associated it with computers and assumed that it started appearing somewhere around 1980, with the fading out of passive backplane systems and arrival of machines which put

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jason Scott
Stack Exchange entry which suggests it goes back to the 1950's. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jules Richardson < jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know the origins

'motherboard' etymology

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
Does anyone know the origins of the term 'motherboard'? I've always associated it with computers and assumed that it started appearing somewhere around 1980, with the fading out of passive backplane systems and arrival of machines which put more functionality onto a 'core' PCB into which

Re: MM11-U/UP core memory backplanes

2016-02-28 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Bill Degnan > > > My thought is that with my PDP 11/05 with S chassis / BA11-K. > > Urr, if you're talking about the backplane the CPU is in (which can hold > one > MM11-U), I think you're out of

Re: 3B2 Diagnostics

2016-02-28 Thread Alan Hightower
Seth, 'filledt' comes on every Essential Utilities Disk 1 along with the unix kernel and OS install routines. Get a SVR3 3.0 Essential Utilities Disk 1 and run filledt from there. I just went through this last week. You can grab the image from here:

Re: MM11-U/UP core memory backplanes

2016-02-28 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Bill Degnan > My thought is that with my PDP 11/05 with S chassis / BA11-K. Urr, if you're talking about the backplane the CPU is in (which can hold one MM11-U), I think you're out of luck: there's no slot for the M7259 parity controller to plug into (at least, one the one in the

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

2016-02-28 Thread Jules Richardson
On 02/26/2016 05:46 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: When at Retrogathering in Västerås (Sweden) a month a ago we demonstrated ASCII Mandelbrot (BASIC) on a VT100 generated by a PDP-11/03 . Takes quite a while for it to do it. http://i.imgur.com/v6FI5Cd.jpg I like that. I just unearthed an ASCII

Re: MM11-U/UP core memory backplanes

2016-02-28 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Bill Degnan > > > Very useful, thanks. > > Eh, de nada - glad to help contibute to the knowledge base. > > > I will try this. > > With MM11-U gear, or MM11-L? > > I ask because, like I said, I

Re: MM11-U/UP core memory backplanes

2016-02-28 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Bill Degnan > Very useful, thanks. Eh, de nada - glad to help contibute to the knowledge base. > I will try this. With MM11-U gear, or MM11-L? I ask because, like I said, I still don't have 100% clarity on the MM11-L situation. I am pretty sure there are old MF11-L

3B2 Diagnostics

2016-02-28 Thread Seth Morabito
Hi all, There's an image of a 3B2 Diagnostics disk floating around, but I'd like to try to confirm what model of 3B2 it was built for. I'm trying to run the "filledt" program from this diagnostics disk on my 3B2/400 emulator, and seeing some REALLY weird behavior. There are several ways to

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

2016-02-28 Thread Mouse
> When I switched to a flat screen (after the CRT monitor died), the > adjustment time was also the biggest disappointment. As you mention, > it usually takes 1, often even 2, seconds to recover after the > blanking interval. (Cognitive dissonance - "blanking interval" is a technical term in

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

2016-02-28 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>On Saturday, February 27th, 2016 at 21:24:12 -0500, Mouse wrote: [Snip] And then there's the adjustment time. CRTs typically adjust to a resolution change in a matter of a few vertical blanking intervals. Flatscreens generally take multiple seconds, sometimes even a second or so before they